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"At a certain point in the diary, Shehab begins to acknowledge that the words he uses have been gradually stripped of meaning: clinic, aid, hospital, life, food, doctor, the sea. He uses them out of necessity, for the recognition of their form, but they've been severed from their referents, and with that, so too do the words collapse in on themselves, in a mirror of the world they're supposed to map." — Nov 08, 2025 11:20PM
"At a certain point in the diary, Shehab begins to acknowledge that the words he uses have been gradually stripped of meaning: clinic, aid, hospital, life, food, doctor, the sea. He uses them out of necessity, for the recognition of their form, but they've been severed from their referents, and with that, so too do the words collapse in on themselves, in a mirror of the world they're supposed to map." — Nov 08, 2025 11:20PM
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
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“I was in jail 81 days, but after 20 days my brain became completely empty; you need information to stay alive. When there’s no information you’re already dead. It’s a very, very strong test – I think more severe than any physical punishment.
All I wanted was a dictionary, even the simplest one.”
― Ai Weiwei
All I wanted was a dictionary, even the simplest one.”
― Ai Weiwei
“(T)he philosopher is a perpetual beginner. This means that he accepts nothing as established from what men or scientists believe they know. This also means that philosophy itself is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning , that it consists entirely in describing this beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation.”
― Phenomenology of Perception
― Phenomenology of Perception
“To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.”
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“For the decline of capitalism to continue, that is to say, no revolutionary alternative is required, and certainly no masterplan of a better society displacing capitalism. Contemporary capitalism is vanishing on its own, collapsing from internal contradictions, and not least as a result of having vanquished its enemies - who, as noted, have often rescued capitalism from itself by forcing it to assume a new form. What comes after capitalism in its final crisis, now underway, is, I suggest, not socialism or some other defined social order, but a lasting interregnum - no new world system equilibrium a la Wallerstein, but a prolonged period of social entropy or disorder (and precisely for this reason a period of uncertainy and indeterminacy). It is an interesting problem for sociological theory whether and how a society can turn for a significant length of time into less than a society, a post-social society as it were, or a society lite, until it may or may not recover and again to become a society in the full meaning of the term.”
― How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
― How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
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